Wednesday December 15, 2010, 2:50 am
Redeem butterf-lies credits - or even better create a real conterbalance by planting trees in wildlife...
Thanks for the reminder Bette.
But in Nature - it is a coming and going.

One needs to ask just how many of the
oversized rats there are compared to
our human population of seven billion & counting?

Animals on their own due to any number of
natural reasons become exstinct. But, man is
doing an excellent job of wipeing all of em' out.
And, in the end we will wipe our selves out
just because there are too many of us already!!

Wednesday December 15, 2010, 9:46 am
South America is owned by the beef barons and they do not care who or what they trample on in the process. Many other animals are suffering and, I recall reading somewhere, that capybaras were being hunted for their meat and their numbers were reducing.

This damage to the environment has an obvious and ongoing effect on the ecosystem which is going to have an effect on the environment which will have a further effect on the ecosystem...........................

This is a far bigger example than many others that we have seen but one that Cancun have totally ignored. What is the point if NO-ONE will do anything? Surely it is time that the intelligent people go involved ie the scientists and the public, anyone but a politician!

Wednesday December 15, 2010, 3:45 pm
Noted & thanks Cal. Invasion to one area is immigration from & to another because of lack of resources or increased competition for those resources necessary for a living organism to survive. Those creatures have been driven out by humans & the voracious appetites we have. By increasing our species, the sheer numbers of our insatiable lives, guarantees the migration/invasions & probable extinction of many other life forms that would share the Earth, if humans would just stop, think, & limit our human reproduction. It really is very simple math.

Wednesday December 15, 2010, 4:24 pm
There are always some creatures that survive and thrive after an extinction event. Small mammals were big winners 65 million yrs ago when the dinosaurs were wiped out. After global warming alters the Earth in the decades ahead, cockroaches and rodents will probably rule the world.